{"id":31352,"date":"2023-09-25T00:00:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T23:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31352"},"modified":"2023-09-25T00:00:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T23:00:52","slug":"abingdon-urban-race-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=31352","title":{"rendered":"Abingdon Urban Race 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023092403.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe Thames Valley Orienteering Club returned to Abingdon to run the <em>Abingdon Urban Race<\/em> today Sunday, September 24th. <\/p>\n<p>Over 200 competitors participated in the event, which saw them navigate a series of checkpoints around the town using maps.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023092405.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe race started in the Abbey Gardens, with different course maps available, and different age categories. Competitors could be seen running through the town&#8217;s streets, parks, and alleys, clutching their maps and searching for their next checkpoint. They last orienteered Abingdon in 2017.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Orienteering?<\/strong><br \/>\nThe aim is to navigate between checkpoints on a special orienteering map. There is no set route so the skill and fun come from trying to find the best way to go.<\/p>\n<p>In competitive orienteering, the challenge is to complete the course in the quickest time.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/tvoc.org.uk\/\">https:\/\/tvoc.org.uk\/<\/a> to find out more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Thames Valley Orienteering Club returned to Abingdon to run the Abingdon Urban Race today Sunday, September 24th. Over 200 competitors participated in the event, which saw them navigate a series of checkpoints around the town using maps. The race started in the Abbey Gardens, with different course maps available, and different age categories. Competitors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}